Departments: Surgery/Orthopaedics

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11/17/2006

Fracture risk prediction osteoporosis patients

Simple clinical measurements raise hope of targeted treatments for those at highest risk. The future risk of osteoporotic fracture can be predicted with 75% accuracy using a new …

11/17/2006

The Yale-method for hip replacements

About 1,600,000 artificial hips are implanted every year, in Germany alone. …

11/17/2006

Escalating to 1080 high definition

Sony has launched the first medical recording device - the Professional Disc-based High Definition (PDW-70MD), which enables the capture of surgical procedures in 1080 high …

11/17/2006

Ophthalmology - Surgical simulators

Czech Republic - Two unique ophthalmic simulators are in use at the Motol Faculty Hospital, Prague. …

11/17/2006

Preventing hypothermia

A new, compact, fully portable Patient Warming System, is '..the most efficient, non-invasive method of temperature control currently available' …

11/17/2006

Tissue oxygenation

Continous, non-invasive tissue oxygenation and monitoring during resusciation. …

11/17/2006

Products span respiratory care

Respironics develops and manufactures innovative sleep and respiratory products and programmes, which it distributes internationally: …

11/17/2006

Portable multi-parameter monitors

Fukuda Denshi, manufacturer of advanced patient monitoring and user-configurable clinical information management systems, recently introduced its popular DS-7100 range of …

11/17/2006

The 91220 mCare 300

Spacelabs Healthcare is a growing group of companies now operating under one new name. Earlier companies incorporated under this name include Spacelabs Medical, Del Mar Reynolds, …

11/16/2006

World's first full-face transplant

The ethics committee of the UK' s National Health Service (NHS) has cleared the way for the world's first full face transplant. …

11/14/2006

BOWA becomes BOWA

It's a new colour — but not a quality change for new products BOWA-electronic GmbH reports. …

11/14/2006

Sopro acquires Comeg

The French firm Sopro, a subsidiary of the Acteon Group, has acquired the German company Comeg. …

11/14/2006

New generation camera and video communication systems

Berchtold camerea systems delivers shadow-free images in all lightning situations …

11/14/2006

Capturing the action

Brandon Medical has launched a new range of video camera systems for the operating theatre using Sony Professional technology. …

11/14/2006

OR light with integrated camera

Dräger Medical launched new space-saving OR light. …

11/14/2006

Treatment of orthopaedic patients to accelerate

UK - Around 10 million people suffer from musculoskeletal ailments in England alone. …

11/14/2006

MDCT imaging technique to evaluate bone healing

Increased diagnostic possibilities for orthopaedic patients. …

11/14/2006

Bone Support study is underway

Cerament Spine Support, designed by the medical technology company BoneSupport to treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, has achieved full patient enrolment in an …